In Between Two Worlds: Colombian migrants negotiating identity, acculturation, and settlement in Melbourne

Migration, Identity, Colombian, Acculturation, Settlement

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Acknowledgements

We would like to thank the Colombian immigrants living in Melbourne who were willing to participate in this research; they have given their time and generously shared their migration experiences. Without them this whole research would not be possible. We would like to gratefully acknowledge Shemana Cassiem and Luisa Fernanda Ramírez Rueda for their constructive comments on an earlier draft.

• Margarita Rosa Fierro Hernandez
• Christopher C. Sonn 
  Institute of Health and Biomedicine, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia

Author biographies
Margarita Rosa Fierro Hernandez, Victoria University, is a psychologist. She holds a Bachelor of Psychology, Universidad de los Andes in Bogota., Colombia and a Master of Applied Psychology (Community psychology), from Victoria University Melbourne, Australia. Her fields of interest include racism, stigma of social minorities, migration, cultural diversity and community psychology.

Christopher C. Sonn, PhD, is an Associate Professor in Community Psychology at Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia on the land of the Wurundjeri of the Kulin nation. His research examines histories of colonialism and oppression and its continuities in various forms of structural violence and its effects on social identities, intergroup relations and belonging. He holds a Visiting Professorship at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. He is co-editor of Creating Inclusive Knowledges and co-author of Social Psychology and Everyday Life, and Associate Editor of the American Journal of Community Psychology and Community Psychology in Global Perspective.